News stories from eLearning Africa in 2015

eLearning Africa 2016: Call for proposals

eLearning Africa | 25 Nov 2015

African education experts want to hear from anyone with innovative ideas about how technology can help transform the continent.

Report reveals opportunities slipping through Africa’s digital gender gap

eLearning Africa | 08 Jun 2015

Findings from the eLearning Africa Report 2015, which is now available free to download, reveal that, despite rapid growth in internet and mobile usage across the region, women are much less likely to get online than men. And they are still largely unrepresented in the technology sector.

eLearning Africa: African Union Warns of Threat to Skills Revolution

eLearning Africa | 22 May 2015

African leaders are warning that the continent’s lofty dreams may not be realized without a determined focus on information and communication technology (ICT), skills development and innovation.

eLearning Africa Report: ICTs boosting growth but teachers reluctant to change

eLearning Africa | 20 May 2015

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the key to improving education and thus boosting growth across Africa – but there is still widespread reluctance among teachers, trainers and managers to abandon traditional methods in favour of new solutions.

eLearning Africa 2015: Ministers to discuss building on Africa’s progress in education

eLearning Africa | 12 May 2015

As attention moves from the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), political leaders will join education experts and investors at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa later this month to discuss the role technology can play in building on Africa’s progress in education, training and development.

African leaders need to “leapfrog the shackles of convention” say experts

eLearning Africa | 23 Apr 2015

International experts will call for African leaders to “leapfrog the shackles of convention” at a major education conference next month, in order to ensure that African economic growth is sustained by adequately trained young people. The programme for this year’s eLearning Africa, which is being co-organised by the African Union and co-hosted by the Government of Ethiopia, reflects the extraordinary breadth and pace of change underway in African education – and the challenge for new technology-based solutions to meet Africa’s growing demand for high quality education and training.

Focus on ICT for education in rural Africa

eLearning Africa | 24 Mar 2015

High-level presentations at eLearning Africa, Africa’s leading conference on technology for development and education, will focus on the role ICTs are playing in transforming the continent’s rural economies by improving access to information and training.